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Will there be two threads? I remember there was one where oneboot was giving us summaries. Won't be able to monitor the kickstarter due to work and I know how fast those comment sections move.

Whether there will be a KS chatter thread or not, I don't know.

I do plan to do my 'KS summary posts' again, and I will post them in the official thread when that goes live. These are where I skim through the KS comments and glean out important or interesting information posted by official Reaper staff members and post it here.

This way, folks who don't have time to keep up with the runaway-train speed of the comments won't miss out on essential information (such as answered questions and stretch goal teases). I try to keep these as factually true as possible, which is why I don't generally include comments that aren't from Reaper or one of their associates (like Izzy the artist or Julie Guthrie the sculptor, for example).

I...may need an assistant to help me with this for the first week, though, since I have a date with a certain 5-headed dragon.

EDIT: a brave individual has volunteered, so no further assistance needed. :)

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I do plan to do my 'KS summary posts' again, and I will post them in the official thread when that goes live. These are where I skim through the KS comments and glean out important or interesting information posted by official Reaper staff members and post it here.

This way, folks who don't have time to keep up with the runaway-train speed of the comments won't miss out on essential information (such as answered questions and stretch goal teases). I try to keep these as factually true as possible, which is why I don't generally include comments that aren't from Reaper or one of their associates (like Izzy the artist or Julie Guthrie the sculptor, for example).

I...may need an assistant to help me with this for the first week, though, since I have a date with a certain 5-headed dragon.

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When you get right down to it, everyone paid shipping before it was just bundled into the pledge values of all the stuff. But it's more transparent to just charge everyone shipping costs, that way you don't have to keep explaining to the ROW that they've got a hidden shipping discount that equals the free shipping the US pledges get.

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When you get right down to it, everyone paid shipping before it was just bundled into the pledge values of all the stuff. But it's more transparent to just charge everyone shipping costs, that way you don't have to keep explaining to the ROW that they've got a hidden shipping discount that equals the free shipping the US pledges get.

I hope that strategy does what Reaper intends it to do.

My fear is that this puts a damper on pledges from Reaper's main consumer base, US customers. Even if it looks 'more fair' and quells some of the whiny comments, it wouldn't be good to do if they were aiming for higher pledge totals, since they would be catering to smaller demographics. But I'm willing to bet Reaper ran the math and if they think this will happen they are doing so intentionally. Not that the US customers wouldn't be getting as good of a deal, but if the perception from ROW backers was skewed before, I imagine adding the shipping to US customers will have a bigger skewed perception reaction, due to the size of the US backer base.

I also have the idea that leaving the PM open so long is what caused a lot of the delay, and maybe they are looking to avoid having such a large campaign this time in the hopes that they can have more steady, faster turn around on smaller campaigns. Who knows? Just thinking aloud.